You online Data safe ?

with Cambridge Analytica in the news recently , are you concerned about what else is being harvested ?

I know at the moment it concentrates on Facebook data , but there are others who collect your data Google , Utube and several web pages most are registered to , and not to forget even your ISP collects data

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This, is one of the reasons I have no interest in using this service or their like, another is the fact that I'm not really interested in other peoples lives and I have much better things to do with my time.

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Just crazy how we have all shared data in what was for many the new world of social media and so much else and yes, I'm as guilty as anybody. At my age and on a personal level I have little issue with it now but for the youngsters, they need to be aware that all they have shared will be available and 'out there' for the rest of their lives. A sort of technical tattoo if you like.

PS. I downloaded all my details and permanently closed (not suspended) my fb account well over a year ago. It was amazing what details they had about myself and my contacts, but just as worrying I guess is what the did not tell or allow me to download.

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Yes but it isn't personal data that most websites collect unless you supply it.

Things like your ip address, ISP, time of day etc.. .well everyone online has that. ISPs are going to store most of it to cover their own backs and governments will always authorise themselves to that data as they want it.

It's services where you voluntarily provide information that you need to be careful about. I provide very little to them.

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“So if you’re worried about this harvesting of data, you should also be worried about the ways in which third parties are tracking and profiling you. These companies, that you aren’t even aware of, hold vast amounts of very personal, very intimate information about you.”

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I don't have a FB (closed it in 2011 after having it for a few months) or Twitface account. I don't post irate rantings or more personal information online other than sites like gov.uk, banks, utilities and so forth where there is no choice.

Any forums I am a member of do not hold personal.details. Thinking of changing my name on them to Sue Donym

When I'm dead it won't matter so, until then, can't see the point of worrying about it.

Even before the age of everything being computerised and data held online there were times information was wrong. I had two such cases with the DSS and NHS both of which were a hassle to correct and in the case of the NHS only involved paper records.

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It's been recently reported that the police have asked Google to report details of smart phones that were sited within the locality of an incident. It was alleged this helps the police identify potential witnesses. Given how Google asks me to review shops, restaurants and tourist attractions I've paused at or nearby the capability track people is used. It's probably behind the USA requirement that all mobile phones have active GPS capability built into them.

I occasionally send my smartphone on "holiday" with other people to help build up its "air miles", meanwhile I use my dumb mobile for general usage.

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You don't have to, they obtain information from the friends and family you have in many cases tracked from the 'likes' and comments you have made. You must have done that surely, otherwise what was the point of fb.

It's not about information you provide rather the links you have as said, inadvertently provided. Our Netflix choices, store loyalty cards, those cookies and even our location for heavens sake all monitored and all shared permission granted or not.

This is not the first time myself and others have expressed worries about these guys either, but it's all been water off a ducks even to the point of feeling just a bit daft.